The on-going production and supply crisis in the peat sector in Ireland continues to rumble on, with representations being made to the government via the House of the Oireachtas in Dublin.
Groups representing the Irish horticulture sector have presented an Oireachtas committee with recommendations to ensure sufficient supply of Irish horticultural peat.
In mid-October representatives of Growing Media Ireland (GMI), the Commercial Mushroom Producers Co-Operative Society Limited (CMP), and Kildare Growers Group discussed the ongoing crisis in the sector with the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
The horticulture industry patiently awaits the conclusions and recommendation of the committee, but what they will be is anyone’s guess.
Meanwhile the committee is hearing that shiploads of peat are still being imported into the country to supply growers of mushrooms, vegetables, flowers and trees, with the huge cost to the environment and consumers that it entails.
